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Lisbon is often the first stop on anyones portugal food travel tour. Wine tours of kent offer guided wine tours and brewery tours of english wineries in the kent countryside. Taste awardwinning wines and explore vineyards in the beautiful english countryside just an hour from london. A perfect sightseeing shore excursion day in the provencal countryside with perfumes, medieval towns, and local traditional wine tasting. With a small group of fellow wine enthusiasts and an expert guide, spend a fullday visiting three distinguished champagne houses such as mercier in epernay or tattinger in reims to taste eight samples and learn about local varietals. But what many people dont know is that there are a plethora of wines to be found in the region, all entirely different, and many worth tasting if youre a wine drinker.
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